Makiguchi Tsunesaburo Quotes & Sayings

God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word. — Matthew Ashimolowo

True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket. — Alec-Tweedie

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky. — Karen Thompson Walker

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. — Elliot Perlman

What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible? — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity. — Sulak Sivaraksa

If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him. — Jason Kravits

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history. — Ben Bernanke

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands ... [and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage. — Edmund Burke

you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler! — Georgette Heyer

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy. — Geoffrey Wood

To see what's beyond the horizon, we must paddle out, leave our familiar shores, and venture into the unknown. — Khoo Swee Chiow

To not advance is to retreat. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Everyone at health food stores and juice bars looked pale and sickly. Healthy-looking people ate at McDonald's. — Jason Starr